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Jean Fritz, the Newbery Honor-winning author of Homesick, is best known for her engaging and enlightening nonfiction for young readers,including What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?, And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?, and Shh! We're Writing the Constitution. She was honored with the Knickerbocker Award for Juvenile Literature by the New York State Library Association and won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for her career contribution to American children's literature.

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Jean Fritz, the Newbery Honor-winning author of Homesick, is best known for her engaging and enlightening nonfiction for young readers,including What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?, And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?, and Shh! We're Writing the Constitution.

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National Book Award

- Homesick (1983)
- Traitor, the case of Benedict Arnold (1982) (nominated)
- Where Do You Think You're Going, Christopher Columbus? (1981) (nominated)
John Newbery Medal
- Homesick (1983)
Spur Award
- Make Way for Sam Houston (1986)
Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal
- Won; 1986

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Jean Fritz was born on November 16, 1915 in Hankow China. She was raised in China until she was 13 years old. Then her family moved to the United States where she grew up and attended school. Jean went to Wheaton College in Massachusetts. After Jean Fritz graduated college, in 1937,  she later married her husband, Michael Fritz in 1941. The two had two children, David and Andrea Fritz.  As a child, Jean wrote in a journal and when she became an adult she had a number of jobs that involved writing. Jean ended up trying to publish her books but she did not succeed at first. Then after becoming a librarian, she then learned and understood how to write for children. She once again started to send her stories out and they started to get published. Jean Fritz had a successful career in children's writing. Jean Fritz lived to be 101. (November 16,1915- May 14,2017)

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1. Bunny Hopwell's first spring (1954)
2. Fish Head (1954)
3. The Cabin Faced West (1958)
4. Champion Dog Prince Tom (1958)
5. How to read a Rabbit (1959)
6. Brady (1960)
7. Early Thunder (1967)
8. George Washington's Breakfast (19 69)
9. Cast for a Revolution (1972)
10. And Then What Happened , Paul Revere? (1973)
11. Why Don't You Get a Horse ,Sam Adams? (1974)
12.  Where was Patrick Henry On the 29th of May? (1975)
13. Who's that Stepping on Plymouth Rock? (1975)
14. Shh! We're Writing the Constitution (1976)
15. Can't You Make Them behave, King George (1976)
16. What's the bid idea, Ben Franklin? (1976)
17. Will You Sign Here, John Hancock? (1976)
18. Stonewall (1979)
19. Brendan the Navigator (1979)
20.  Where Do You Think You're Going Christopher Columbus? (1980)
21. Traitor, the case of Benedict Arnold (1981)
22. The man who loved books (1981)
23. Homesick (1982)
24. The Good Giants and the Bad Pukwudgies (1982)
25. Tracking the Past (1983)
26. The double life of Pocahontas (1983)
27. Jean Fritz American History Books (1983)
28. China homecoming (1985)
29. Make Way for Sam Houston (1986)
30. China's Long March (1988)
31. The great little Madison (1989)
32. Worlds of Childhood: The Art and Craft of Writing for Children (1990)
33. Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt (1991)
34. George Washington's Mother (1992)
35. The World in 1492 (1992)
36. Surprising myself (1992)
37. The Great Adventure of Christopher Columbus (1992)
38. Just a few words, Mr. Lincoln (1993)
39. Around the world in a hundred years  (1994)
40. Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Beecher preachers (1994)
41. You want women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton? (1995)
42. Jf Am Hist Cla Set Pa (1997)
43. Why not, Lafayette? (1999)
44.  Pptc Amer Hist 8c (2001)
45. Leonardo's Horse (2001)
46. The Lost Colony of Roanoke (2004)
47. Alexander Hamilton: The Outsider ( 2011)
48. Stories for Presidents' Day (2017)
49. Who's Saying What in Jamestown, Thomas Savage?

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Bunny Hopwell's First Spring is Jean Fritz very first book that was published in 1954. It is about a bunny who was born in the winter and when spring started to approach he did not understand why everyone was so excited for spring. Bunny Hopwell thought spring was a person or a thing. He did not understand that it was a season where all the flowers bloom, the grass turns green, the bears come out of hibernation, etc. When Spring finally came he finally understood what everyone was so excited about. He thought it was so you could spring over everything.

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Jean Fritz wrote an autobiography about Paul Revere. He was a very busy man who lived in Massachusetts. Paul Revere father died when he was 15 years old. He became a silversmith like his father. Paul married twice and in between the two marriages he had 13 children. Paul Revere eventually became a dentist. He whittled teeth to make extra money. The story tells you about his personal life, him being in a secret club, his successful ride to Lexington, and the details about what happened before his ride, during his ride, and after the ride. Paul Revere was a silversmith, a dentist, and business man.

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Just a Few Words, Mr. Lincoln was published in 1993. It tells the story of Mr. Lincoln and everyone wanted to hear what he had to say. There were folks who wanted his autograph to where he stopped writing his full name so he started to just write A. Lincoln. He played a lot with his son that he nicknamed Tad. He would play with him as often as he could. Tad became sick. Mr. Lincoln had to go to Gettysburg while his son was sick. Tad did get better. When he arrived to Gettysburg everyone wanted his attention. It goes on to tell his experience at Gettysburg and there was about 20,000 people just to see President Lincoln and what he had to say.  Mr. Lincoln said 271 words.

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Well known children's author Jean Fritz takes the viewer along on a research trip.

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Prize winning children's author Jean Fritz, best known for her Newbery Honor book "Homesick" takes takes the viewer along for a research trip at the Hasting's Public Library.

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Can't You Make Them Behave, King George was published in 1976. This children's book is about King George the III as a child, a little bit about him as a king and goes into the American Revolutionary war. It goes on to tell us how American's stopped looking at King George III as a "good" king. King George III made American's pay taxes which upset them. Jean Fritz focuses more on King George III life and the facts about him rather than focusing on the war or other issues. This is a very humorus book about King George the III that is good for about 3rd grade on up.

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Acclaimed biographer, Jean Fritz, was born in China to American missionaries on November 16, 1915. Living there until she was almost thirteen sparked a lifelong interest in American history. She...

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Leonardo's Horse was published in 2001. Leonardo Da Vinci was always a different kind of person as a boy and up until his adult years. His father new he loved art and would be great at it. So he sent Leonardo to art school. When Leonardo found out that his father would be  honored with a bronze horse. Leonardo instantly wanted to be the one to make it. The duke of Milan wanted it to be 3 times bigger that normal size. Leonardo studied horses to the point where he new exactly where all the muscles and bones were. He gathered a ton of metal to melt down to make the horse but the metal was turned into canons for a war. Leonardo never got to finish making the horse. When he died he was still so upset he did not get to make the horse that he tried so hard to make. Charles Dent decided he would make Da Vinci's dream come true but before he was able to he passed away. So Nina Akamu finished the dream and in September 1999 the horse was reveled in Milan Italy.